Damn…my head’s spinning and I really, really need to get to bed, but dammit, this sounds too cool to pass up writing about. According to our inside source over at cool-ass Midtown record store Sig’s Lagoon (which is coming close to eclipsing my love of Cactus, I have to say), awesome poster artist Uncle Charlie […]
Big, big, big “thank-yous” to my little bro for pointing out this news. Not only will The State, probably the funniest sketch-comedy troupe outside of the original SNL cast (okay, and maybe SCTV), be finally releasing their long-awaited DVD set(?), but they’ll be doing a reunion show, to boot. Holy fuck. Once I see that, […]
So, I’ve had my 4G iPod for a few years now — same one I initially bought, never replaced or upgraded or anything like that. It kept me sane during my time as a contractor, esp. at The Big Red H and ExxonMobil’s Bell St. office (right next to the elevator; yay!), and while I […]
Okay, not literally, but that’s kind of the idea. Y’see, yours truly will be hopping on a jetplane at the end of this month to fly to beauteously hot Tucson, Arizona (which is a lot neater, somehow, than it was when I was a child & was forced to spend my summers there). There I’ll […]
…this seems awful damn cynical, even to a non-fan like me: [Kiss manager Doc] McGhee said “I believe that Kiss can go on forever. I believe that there is a way – and we are talking to people and we’re pretty close to getting it done – about finding the four new members of Kiss.” […]
Okay, so now that I’m gonna have to enter Witness Protection or hope that the guys in the band alluded to repeatedly here are very forgiving, I feel the need for something entertaining. Serious discussion is great & all (and I think this thread is probably gonna go down in history as the longest this […]
Fuck. It happens once or twice a year, these days, but it never gets a whole lot easier — I guess I should be glad we’re not Pitchfork, ’cause I’d imagine they get a shitload of hate mail, given their prominence & the volume of stuff they review. We here at SCR recently slammed a […]
Moving is hard. That’s the primary takeaway I’ve gotten from this whole ordeal: it’s a gigantic pain in the ass, and not one I’m likely to undertake again anytime soon. Or, um, ever. Since we’re finally feeling somewhat settled-in at The New Place (which we like quite a bit, mind you, but still…), I figured […]
Turns out I can’t even post an apology for being slow properly. Fuck. I put up the post last night around 11PM, figuring any nite-owl readers would see it & drive themselves down to Sig’s for the tail-end of their Record Store Day deal…and then, when I get back online this AM, I see it […]
I can’t believe this finally happened. I also can’t believe anybody still cares, especially enough that they’d do something dumb like this. Of course, “handed over” is not exactly “released” — who knows what the label’ll do with it now — but still. That’s what’s known as calling somebody’s bluff, y’all. Prepare to pony up, […]
This is absolutely priceless — check out the video at the end. I’m bummed that there’s no footage of Something Fierce, and Be My Doppelganger sound like they would’ve been cool to see, despite the blown-out videocam mic, but honestly, the part that kills me is the spliced-in post-shutdown commentary by Ramon & Rosa’s adorable […]
Fuck. I’ve been steaming about this for a couple of weeks now, but I just can’t get over it — I’m still mad as hell that Jericho got cancelled for the second damn time, this time permanently. Beyond the fact that the CBS rocket scientists, in their infinite wisdom, put the show in a weird-ass […]
Since I’ve started trying to bring the little digital camera I got for Christmas to more shows lately, I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic for the Days of Yore here in Houston’s murky-yet-vibrant scene. There was a time when I’d bring my trusty Pentax to every damn show — esp. the ones we played — […]
This is utterly, spectacularly, jaw-droppingly horrifying. Check out the brilliance of the quote in the 7th paragraph down; I can’t even bring myself to copy-and-paste it here. Fuck. People, what the hell is wrong with all of you? Because if you bought this crap, trust me, something most certainly is. Screw the prospect of another […]
I cannot put into words just how much this angers and offends me, as a consumer and a human being. This is what happens when the almighty dollar trumps decency and common sense. Haven’t the poor woman and her family suffered enough? I can’t think of a worse hell imaginable than what she goes through […]
Man, what a week… There was supposed to be a nice, big update to the site this past week, including a few of our growing pile of need-to-get-posted live reviews, but then yours truly got laid real low by the flu — I don’t remember a thing from roughly last Monday evening to Tuesday night, […]
Dammit, dammit, dammit. I hate to admit it, but I tend to ignore all the emails I get from what look like crappy dance clubs, and sometimes it bites me in the ass. Like now, since I just bothered to look at one email & discovered that Talib Kweli, of all people (the non-Mos Def […]
Damn, I’m beat. Not because I spent today trudging around Austin in the hot, hot sun, mind you, but because I spent today kiddie birthday party-hopping, hitting two exhausting, extremely loud gatherings of munchkins in one long, long afternoon. I managed to overdose pretty severely on frosting, greasy pizza, bouncy castles, and Hannah Montana, all […]
Tried to get this up last night after watching more episodes than intended of Jericho Season 1 on DVD — just couldn’t shut the damn TV off, somehow — and I couldn’t do it; sorry, y’all, for this being a bit down-to-the-wire. sigh… I wanted to make absolute damn sure to get some new reviews […]
Working on an actual review of the show, but here’re some pics I took w/my little camera during last night’s Jonah Matranga show over. Sweet, quiet, friendly little gathering of folks, hanging out in a warehouse/movie set complete with blood-spattered chains, fake barbed wire, & monster props — nowhere near as big as I’d hoped, […]
This week’s killing me, I swear. In addition to needing to tend to the work & home life, I feel awash in the head-high tide of SXSW sideswipes with which our fair city’s currently being blessed — tonight, for example, what would otherwise have been a humdrum, nothing-goin’-on Tuesday night is instead filled to overflowing […]
I don’t know what’s scarier, the fact that this happened, or the fact that I already knew some of the backstory. Sorry, Randy Parton fans and inhabitants of Roanoke Rapids, NC (hi, Brandi & Chris!), but apparently the long-awaited “companion” theme park to Dollywood, “Randyland”, ain’t gonna happen. (Or, actually, it still will, just without […]
Yeah, you really shouldn’t, ever. Naturally, we’re happy as hell to hear the news, but dang, way to make liars out of us poor SCR saps, Mr. Keith… (And hey, our little interview somehow ended up as a reference to the Face to Face Wikipedia entry; does this make us big-time? Hrm, maybe not.)
Wow…this is getting a little weird. I mean, I definitely get why people like Barack Obama, believe me, but the past couple of weeks have been downright surreal, at least by Houston standards. Tonight, just as we were putting the munchkin to bed, I got my third visit/call from the Obama campaign crew, this time […]
Y’know, on the one hand the Maxim mess is pathetic and disturbing (and props to Broken Record for talking about it before anybody else I subscribe to did), but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t strike me as being mostly hysterically funny. I mean, c’mon, how much more “meta” could we possibly get? My favorite […]
Well, I pretty much lucked out, I think, this past Thursday. The wife was having a moms’ group thing (something involving chocolate & a lot of women) at our house, so the munchkin went to Grandma’s for the night & I was banished temporarily from the premises. And lo and behold, in spite of it […]
Well, this little piece of news has definitely brought my week down. sigh. I didn’t go for John Edwards in 2004 — I was a diehard Kucinich fan back then (Kooch!) — but this time out I liked the guy the best out of the field, having read and heard a lot about him in […]
Yep, State of the Union address is tonight, and I have to say that while I wasn’t planning on watching, I think this here little tool is darn neato. I like the thought of watching the spectacle while my phone quietly tells me how much of it is bullshit. Okay, I would like the thought, […]
No time for the “real” Rundown today, sorry — there are many, many fine shows going on this weekend, but yours truly is totally swamped (and experiencing technical difficulties w/the site, to boot; argh…). I’m bound and determined, though, come hell or high water, to get my ass out of the house to see Sharon […]
There are days when you just have to shrug and figure, “well, at least I got a semi-entertaining story out of it.” Like, say, this past Monday. Yours truly was all ready-set-go for the Foo Fighters/Jimmy Eat World/Against Me! gig this week up at Toyota Center (which I’d never been to before; okay, and I […]
Well, 2007’s done, and a new year’s now upon us. And as I sit here and listen to the booming fireworks off in the distance (and the, er, somewhat sharper reports closer to home), it’s been a hell of a year, especially in terms of music coming out of our fair city — to be […]
Okay, so I really should be doing, um, actual work, but I stumbled across a couple of things today that are begging me to post about ’em, even if ever so briefly. I’m not particularly up on what movies are coming down the pipe (I tuned out of the whole Cloverfield thing once I realized […]
…this is just utterly, utterly horrifying. Dear God. And maybe it’s the Dad in me being all super-protective or something, but there’s something really disturbing to me about the sight of a little girl dancing, Britney Spears-like, surrounded by a bunch of buff older (than her, anyway) guys. Hell, at least Hannah Montana’s dancers are […]
Y’know, I’m to the point with my cynicism that I almost expect to get screwed, on some level, by big corporations. I figure that if there’s a way to get my money and not give me what I thought I paid for, they’re gonna go for it. I’ve been burned before by a few companies/restaurants/car […]
I’m not going to pretend to have a clue what the hell’s going on, but damn, this is too freakin’ funny. Ah, Technoviking, you make me proud of my somewhat sketchy (long story) Nordic roots.
I figured heck, I’m in a video-posting mood, so why not keep it rolling… The two videos below amply demonstrate why even now, a decade after the band broke up, I still can’t help but think of NYC madmen Barkmarket as the quintessential heavy rock (not metal, mind you, but loud, heavy, stomping rock) band […]
I’ve mentioned this to several people lately, so I figured I’d post it here, as well. I drive my three-year-old to school most days, on my way to work, and while it’s less than a 10-minute commute (for her, anyway), she always seems to enjoy listening to non-specifically-“kid” music in Daddy’s car. Generally, it’s the […]
When the hell is it gonna end? It seems like this week’s been a nonstop roll of bad-bad-bad news for Houston’s music scene, and all of that pales in comparison to the news broken on the Free Press Houston blog yesterday evening that local music scenester/journo Rick Smith has passed away unexpectedly. Damn, man. I […]
What, is there some sort of karmic balance in the Houston music scene that must be maintained, else the universe slips off its axis and we all suddenly never existed? That’s really the only explanation I can come up with for this — we get the word that Cactus is coming back, only it’s followed […]
Seriously, it feels like it. After the recent network outages here at work (I’m told it was a “spanning tree loop,” but I’ve got only a vague idea as to what that means) and now the wireless issues I’m having, I’m about ready to throw ’em all out the window and go Luddite. I’d hoped […]
